In a significant enforcement action, a commercial fishing vessel operating out of Westport, Washington, has been apprehended ...

After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California ...

State regulators in Washington have approved a new line marking rule for traps used in the state’s Dungeness crab fishery in ...

Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group is using a simple light trapping technique to collect survey data and learn more about ...

Federal budget cuts to NOAA are delaying plans to prevent whale entanglements in Dungeness crab fishing gear, impacting both ...

One minute to go until the start of Dungeness crab season. In the pitch black sea, Day’s radiant orange buoys bob with the promise of a payday. In total, he has set out 250 crab traps.

Facing the continued collapse of Chinook salmon, officials today shut down California’s commercial salmon fishing season for ...

A humpback whale that was first observed half a year ago off the Monterey coast to be entangled in lines from a Dungeness ...

“Unfortunately, it has been six years we've been delayed or closed early for whales,” said Brand Little, a San Francisco Dungeness crab fisherman who is among those participating in the pilot ...